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[quote=Anonymous]Trying to get back to the original topic...I read about 5 pages and then decided not to read through another 15 pages of back and forth over YY...

While Spanish may be more common in colloquial settings in the DC area, Chinese is more common in technical areas.  At many federal agencies and federal contractors in the DC area, there are thousands of Chinese speakers.  They are in IT, in sciences and in engineering.  I think Chinese is significantly more common in white collar offices than Spanish is.  It is also becoming a much more common language in business, particularly international business settings as China is the largest growing segment of the international marketplace.

For the odd poster from page one or two who says that it is only spoke in one country, that is incorrect.  It is spoken in many areas of the Pacific Rim, and growing internationally as well.  So, if your child will be working in technical fields or may work for a company/corporation that does international business, Chinese is likely to be significantly more important by the time they graduate from college.  Also, Chinese as a tonal language is easier to learn when young and harder to learn when older.  The romantic languages don't have quite that issue.  It is easier to learn Chinese when of grade school age and Spanish later than vice versa.  All of these suggest to me that if you don't have any other guidance for which to select, then I would select Chinese for younger students.[/quote]

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